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Sima Slonim, Israeli Artist, orig. Autograph on Book: Chabad Lubavitch. Children’s magazine “Talks and Tales”, 1948-1949 - Sima Slonim, Israeli Artist, orig. Autograph on Book: Chabad Lubavitch. Children’s magazine “Talks and Tales”, 1948-1949 Chabad Lubavitch. Children’s magazine “Talks and Tales”, 1948-1949, English & Yiddish, illust. by Nate Kozlovsky Original Autograph of Sima Slonim on endpaper in pencil. Monthly periodical for children and youth. Published by the Merkaz L'inyanei Chinuch of Chabad, Brooklyn, 770 Eastern Parkway, in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. Lithographed title pages (covers) by Nate Kozlovsky, signed in the plate lower left, printed on blue or pink paper. Illustrations of other artists, some of them signed in the plate Hard cover: 25 x 17.5 cm. Condition: some wear and rubbing to cover, corners bumped; spine is missing but binding is tight; light brown endpapers and repair strips. Weight: 560gr. Educational periodical with stories, Torah thoughts, laws in addition to riddles and crosswords for youth. Published with a corresponding booklet in English. Each 'year' begins in Tevet and ends in Kislev. The periodical was published from 1942 through 1980. Sima Slonim, 1910-1999 Slima Slonim, a pioneer Israeli female artist, was one of the few painters of her generation born in the country, which was officially established as a state in 1948. A fifth generation Israeli, she was born in Jaffa into a religious Jewish Orthodox family. During her long career, S. Slonim adopted both the contemporary trends of the international and local artistic scenes, but always preserved her distinctive personal style and remained, first and foremost, a regional artist. Part of the new generation of Israeli painters discouraged by a local art scene with no art museums and almost no art schools available, S. Slonim moved to Paris in the mid-1930s, pretending, for her parents’ sake, that she was moving to Haifa, a city in northern Israel. In Paris she associated with Chaim Soutine (1893-1943) and the circle of East European Jewish expressionist painters who had gathered in the city and was greatly influenced by the School of Paris. She studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and participated in a group exhibition, displaying her works next to those of Marc Chagall (1887-1985), Henri Matisse (1869-1954), Joan Miro (1893-1983) and Auguste Renoir (1841-1919). Influenced by the expressionist style, her paintings at that time, like her famous Portrait of Chaïm Soutine, were emotionally charged and used a distinctive range of dark colours and thick layer of paint.